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Apple just released iOS 5 beta 2 for those fortunate enough to have a developer account. Or those of you who care enough to find the firmware through the necessary back channels.

The release notes from Apple highlight only one new known feature, the ability to finally sync your iDevice wirelessly via Wi-Fi syncing. The beta is available for the iPPhone 4, 3GS, 4th Gen iPod Touch, iPad, and iPad 2. Users must also be upgraded to OS X 10.6.8 or be running an early build of OS X Lion. Expect a litany of updates dissecting all the new features and changes Apple didn't announce as the iOS community digs into the new beta release.

The big question though, is the updated beta version of iOS 5 still jailbreakable? Dev Team developer MuscleNerd confirmed via Twitter that the new beta 2 is jailbreakable using the latest version of RedSn0w. Users will need to point RedSn0w to iOS 5 beta 1 however.

As usual, do not upgrade your iDevice to iOS beta 5 unless you know the the deuce you are doing. There is the strong possibility your iDevice could become a useless brick, so proceed with caution.

Most people on here need to understand that whining about it not working on Windows is rather pointless at this stage of development. These are DEVELOPER releases. You can more than likely count on one hand how many iOS developers out there are developing on Windows machines, and Apple could care less about them anyways considering one of the 'requirements' for developing for iOS is that you are on OSX.

So Windows users sit back and wait on your release, which will more than likely be a lot closer to public release.

Most people on here need to understand that whining about it not working on Windows is rather pointless at this stage of development. These are DEVELOPER releases. You can more than likely count on one hand how many iOS developers out there are developing on Windows machines, and Apple could care less about them anyways considering one of the 'requirements' for developing for iOS is that you are on OSX.

So Windows users sit back and wait on your release, which will more than likely be a lot closer to public release.

I'm fairly certain that to develop for iOS you have to be using a Mac. So Mac only makes complete sense right now.

I successfully updates to iOS 5b2 on both my iPad 2 Wifi and iPhone 4 GSM. The problem is that I don't see a "Sync over Wi-Fi connection" anywhere in iTunes 10.5b43. I have looking in the summary tab of my devices in iTunes, and no option to be found

I heard to do the WiFi sync, your iDevice must be plugged into a charger of some sort... Can anyone confirm this? (This would make sense since it could be problematic if the iDevice were syncing or backing up data and it dies halfway through the process).

it will automatically sync if the conditions are correct (on same wifi plugged in)
or u can self invoke it through settings, but it's highly recommended to plug it into a power source

It works really well.
I used it on my ipad 2 without any issues. Plus i was able to sync my phone (tethered) and my ipad 2 (wifi) at the same time. I dont remember being able to sync multiple devices before.

So I did something really dumb: Updated iTunes to Beta 2 instead of doing my phone first. Now I'm trying to figure out the best way to get beta 2 on my phone. I've currently got error 3194 which I deleted Saurik's host info. I've restarted iTunes and that didn't work. If I put my phone into DFU will I be able to bypass that error or would I be better off restoring my phone on another computer and bring the phone back to my regular iTunes afterwards. I'd hate to unistall itunes and re-install all the programs back. Any ideas? Or anyone else successful in this type of screw up. Thanks.

Do you know if your registered UDID will work for all the betas or if you have to resubmit it every beta that comes out?

If your UDID is registered you don't need to register again. All betas will work for your device after your UDID is registered.

Update on sync: A tethered charge (within range of your wifi network) will auto sync with iTunes if your computer (on the same wifi network) is running at the time of the charge. You don't have to plug in your device for wifi sync to work every time (once iOS 5 goes golden). There is a button in Settings that allows you to manually sync over wifi (untethered).

Read all over twitter that it mentioned in the dev release notes that the iphone beta needs to be installed first...

this was said by apple

Originally Posted by Apple

iTunes

The version of iTunes that comes with beta 2 cannot sync devices that have the beta 1 software installed. To avoid this problem, do the following:
Sync any devices that have beta 1 installed to the version of iTunes that came with beta 1.
Upgrade iTunes to the version that comes with beta 2.
Connect the device and install the beta 2 software. (Understand that you might see a failure to sync error when you first connect the device.)
After installing the beta 2 software, restore from your the backup you made in step 1.

so just sync before updating...
i dont know, but i installed iTunes before doing anything, then i backed up my phone on the new iTunes (while running iOS5b1)
and NO ERRORS
the only error i had was trying to use update instead of Restore...
now im running iOS5b2 with DreamBoard and Everything

so just sync before updating...
i dont know, but i installed iTunes before doing anything, then i backed up my phone on the new iTunes (while running iOS5b1)
and NO ERRORS
the only error i had was trying to use update instead of Restore...
now im running iOS5b2 with DreamBoard and Everything

Ok so what's the best way to get rid of iTunes error 3194? I'm on beta 2 iTunes and beta 1 iPhone